Occurence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in iceberg lettuce and environment

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 529, Issue , 2003, Pages 383-385

  Niskanen, Taina ^a   Fredriksson Ahomaa, Maria ^a,b   Korkeala, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FINLAND; FOOD CONTAMINATION; LETTUCE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEWAGE; WATER SUPPLY; YERSINIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTUCA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FINLAND; HUMANS; LETTUCE; SEWAGE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0042513542     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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